MEETING POINT VIA PONTICA Performance, installation, lecture

10 February 2004 - 01 March 2004

Via Pontica – the spring flight of the birds is a term which focuses the efforts of the authors in the direction of a sensual, time-bound natural art. Studying the field of the symbolic they rediscover the sign of the paleo-maze. Its complex structure represents a harmonious agreement of opposites, which build up a whole and at the same time something different. The ROAD provokes them, passing through, to start artistic attempts within the natural motion. It seems as if down to the most obvious way of moving of the bi-pedal creature – simple walking. Stimulating a process of personal studying, their art turns into a sign. The artist, in the act, literally turns into a carrier of a symbolic meaning, using mechanical inventions, which in various ways impede or determine the motion and create a hybrid walking form: a man + construction. In a maze, in spheres, with stilts, with unordinary “shoes” on the feet, feet fixed with concrete in a Russian weeble, the authors pass the distance from the impossibility to the attempt, in the search of the common way or the possible directions to go.
Using the natural environment, hidden or public places, with their specific expression they turn these into the artists’ playground.

MEETING POINT VIA PONTICA Performance, installation, lecture

10 February 2004 - 01 March 2004

Via Pontica – the spring flight of the birds is a term which focuses the efforts of the authors in the direction of a sensual, time-bound natural art. Studying the field of the symbolic they rediscover the sign of the paleo-maze. Its complex structure represents a harmonious agreement of opposites, which build up a whole and at the same time something different. The ROAD provokes them, passing through, to start artistic attempts within the natural motion. It seems as if down to the most obvious way of moving of the bi-pedal creature – simple walking. Stimulating a process of personal studying, their art turns into a sign. The artist, in the act, literally turns into a carrier of a symbolic meaning, using mechanical inventions, which in various ways impede or determine the motion and create a hybrid walking form: a man + construction. In a maze, in spheres, with stilts, with unordinary “shoes” on the feet, feet fixed with concrete in a Russian weeble, the authors pass the distance from the impossibility to the attempt, in the search of the common way or the possible directions to go.
Using the natural environment, hidden or public places, with their specific expression they turn these into the artists’ playground.

GEORGI PAVLOV - PAVLETO 1913 - 1995

05 February 2004 - 28 February 2004

The creative work of Georgi Pavlov-Pavleto is frequently said to imply feelings of lyricism and immediacy. His style bears resemblance with that of the School of Paris, typical with its clear and pure colors and highlighted linearity. His landscapes, depicting views of the capital’s suburbs are among the best creations in the genre.
The exhibition features paintings from the Chiprovtzi Municipality, The Stara Zagora Art Gallery, Sliven, Pazardjik, Burgas, Kazanluk, Sofia Art Gallery and private collections.
The exhibition is organized on the initiative of Stara Zagora Art Gallery, with the support of the ‘Malki Bulgarski Hora’ National Organization, National Initiative Committee, the municipality of Chiprovtzi, the National Business Post.

IVAN B. IVANOV painting

01 February 2004 - 28 February 2004

The exhibition at the SAG presents one of the artist’s latest cycles that synthesizes his search in the direction of the abstract but creating associations imaging.

MEETING POINT Jury Staikov & Toma Vasharov The evolution is a trademark of human Evolution

20 January 2004 - 27 January 2004

The project includes two short video films with duration of 3 and 6 minutes as two parts of one video-installation. The video with duration of 6 minutes is a background of the shorter movie, which bears the main concept.
More accurately, the concept is displayed as a game and undisguised irony through elementary and easily identifiable metaphors. The idea of the impossible revolution stays in the center.

MEETING POINT Samuil Stoyanov Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

18 December 2003 - 15 January 2004

Opposite or complementing, incompatible or logically interrelated are the paintings in this exhibition? The fact that on one canvas two formally anonymous images are situated does not always mean that they do not have a unified logic. “Vecherni novini” (“The Evening News”) contradicts one “accidentally caught frame” from the street traffic to another “accidentally caught frame” from the news of the Katar television. But maybe nothing is accidental. Under what logic “Rocko and Rock” combine the portrait of a Bulgarian boy and American actor? The narrative of the works is apparent, but there are many alternative possibilities for new “reading” and interpretations, which increase with each subsequent look. Maybe the laconic contradiction of formal values in a “Picture without a name” is far less definite.

Daniela Radeva
Curator

GEORGI BOYADJIEV - BOYADJANA Jubilee exhibition paintings and plastic art

11 December 2003 - 25 January 2004

The exposition includes 69 paintings and 10 sculptures and is of retrospective nature - from 1960 to the first days of December 2003.

MEETING POINT Svetlana Todorova PASSIONS

02 December 2003 - 16 December 2003

Svetlana Todorova’s “Passions” installation represents a modern and original photographic vision. Her versatile interests in the field of visual art, the free experimenting and the mastering of different means of expression logically lead her to the creation of a specific, very individual author’s style in accord with the contemporary time.
The passions and feelings, the complex relations, the internal file of the person are the fundamental issue she is interested in – this eternal subject which she manages to interpret her own intriguing way. The human face and his expressive strength completely absorb her attention. The face, always realistically expressed, is taken out of the real environment and time and is embraced in an atmosphere reminding a surrealistic dream where unexpectedly incompatible elements interlace: flowers, fish, blond locks of hair, gypsum masks, metal chains, thin cut plaits...

Stefania Yanakieva
Curator

HOLIDAY! Painting from the gallery collection

01 December 2003 - 31 December 2003

This exposition is dedicated to Christmas and New Year celebrations. Through it Sofia City Art Gallery would like to greet its viewers and wishes them good mood and many new meetings with art.

The exhibition features 27 paintings of canvass by 19 Bulgarian artists. The paintings are selected on a thematic principle and each depicts a celebration: wedding, birth, motherhood, play, carnival, horo dancing, Sunday, vernissage and others. The diversity of topics, the originality of interpretations and the uniqueness of the artistic style have created a rich in suggestions exposition. It is full of joy, optimism, and positive attitude towards life.

STANISLAV PAMUKCHIEV '93 - '03

04 November 2003 - 30 November 2003

The exhibition of Stanislav Pamukchiev is a synthesis of his creative search during the past ten years. It features works that best express the author and most thoroughly disclose his credo. In the gallery’s halls works from the five main cycles can be seen: Ashes /1993-1996/, Precipitated time /1998/, Spaces /1999/, Relicts /2000/, Passing /2001-2003/. The author’s aim is the separate stages to be shown, the change of language form figuratively expressive to informal to be underlined, to be traced the directing towards the object and spatial composition and the return to the figurative.